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Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA surname. · An important strait in the Pearl River Delta between Guangzhou and the South China Sea. · A town in Kansas. · A town in North Carolina.
In reference to the Chinese strait, a corruption of Portuguese Boca do Tigre (literally “Mouth of the Tiger”), a calque of the Chinese name 虎門 /虎门 (Hǔmén, literally “Tiger Gate”).
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- Derivation mentionBoca do Tigrept
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